On the Fourth of July, the Royals and Zack Greinke have been lit up by the likes of the Minnesota Twins in a 9-3 loss. The defeat places Kansas Metropolis at 1-8 in opposition to the Twins in 2023.

It didn’t take lengthy for the firework festivities to start at Goal Subject on Tuesday afternoon. Within the backside of the primary, Minnesota opened the scoring with a Max Kepler RBI-single.

Two innings later, Kepler did much more injury with a two-out, 3-2, three-run bomb to left-center area.

The Royals, nonetheless, responded within the high of the fourth with a two-run shot off the bat of Bobby Witt Jr. The ball traveled 432 toes from dwelling plate to chop the deficit in half.

Sadly, that’s about nearly as good because it acquired on the vacation for Kansas Metropolis. Minnesota tacked on a complete of six runs off Greinke in 5 ¹⁄₃ innings of labor. Even worse, Greinke left with the coach within the high of the sixth.

Within the backside of the seventh, the Twins twisted the knife with a three-run body in opposition to Nick Wittgren.

Kansas Metropolis managed to tack on a run within the ninth because of a sacrifice fly from Nick Pratto, who’s pushed in three runs within the final two video games.

The Royals, 25-61, will try to keep away from a sweep tomorrow night time. Alec Marsh goes for his first main league win in opposition to Pablo Lopez. First pitch is about for six:40 p.m. CT.